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Can the Atheros 9285 card support injection?

I have a Toshiba NB205 netbook with an Atheros 9285 card. Ive got Windows XP Home and BT4 dual booted sucessfully.

When running the aireplay-ng injection test it will say successful when monitoring is turned on (turns interface into mon0), but then aireplay-ng will unexpectedly die when attempting to inject into my router (Dual Band Linksys).

I decided to blacklist the ath9k and ath5k and enable madwifi drivers, now the card is not shown under iwconfig or ifconfig.

Should I get a different card, does madwifi even recognize the ath928x cards, or should I try and revert back to ath9k?

madwifi does have some form of support over 802.11n atheros wireless chipsets though I'd only use it if ath5k/ath9k doesn't work. If you don't see an interface when you have blacklisted ath9k, check dmesg for information. It may require latter version of madwifi and/or HAL.

Also have you tried upgrading the kernel with the one provided in repository? BT4 pre-final ships with 2.6.29.4 but in the repository there is 2.6.30.5. If not give that a go and see if its better. ath9k depends on mac80211 stack and which is basically integral part of the linux kernel. Unless you update the kernel, or use compat-wireless you will be stuck with whichever version that is provided.